How Liberals Left the White Working Class Behind

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We don’t need the white working class.

Do you do your own plumbing and home repairs?

do you ... think only white people are plumbers and roofers? In the DC area, tradesmen & service people are around 75% non-white, in my experience.

Yup. And shoddy workmanship follows

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We don’t need the white working class.

Do you do your own plumbing and home repairs?

My hardworking, legal Hispanic neighbors do that for
Me.

What a self-hating, racist POS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The GOP spin is ro laughable. As if they were ever going to do anything to help the unwealthy.

No, Bernie Sanders is. And the establishment on both sides on here are scared sh*tless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We don’t need the white working class.

Your a classist, racist POS. Robespierre can’t come back from the grave quickly enough for people like you. Entitled, white, rich a$$holes like you are why Trump is president.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wait which is it -- are cons FOR the white (but not black/Hispanic/Asian?) working class? Or do they sneer at them for not partaking in this glorious economy, as many here gloating about their portfolios do?

Can't claim to be sympathetic to the plight of the working class (no matter which color they are) while saying that if anyone is still struggling now it's their own damn fault. Because the stock market!!

So pick one side. Which one do you choose?

[Anonymous]

The "working" part of "white working class" is, at best, deceptive. While the "Third Way"/neoliberal type Democrats have been too cozy with the wealthy classes, the GOP has unfailingly been aligned with the wealthy classes. So, to the extent that middle class and poor white people are aligned with the GOP, it's not because of their status as laborers. It's in spite of their status as laborers.

Lack of education, racism, maybe other factors (and Democrats' insufficient efforts on behalf of labor) explain the affiliation of poor/middle-class/uneducated whites with the GOP. "Working" does not. Otherwise, you'd have more working-class nonwhites affiliated with the GOP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We don’t need the white working class.

Your a classist, racist POS. Robespierre can’t come back from the grave quickly enough for people like you. Entitled, white, rich a$$holes like you are why Trump is president.

[LOUD NOISES]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We don’t need the white working class.

Do you do your own plumbing and home repairs?

My plumber makes close to $150 an hour. He isn’t working class.

$150 per hour less business expenses doesn't make you wealthy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The "working" part of "white working class" is, at best, deceptive. While the "Third Way"/neoliberal type Democrats have been too cozy with the wealthy classes, the GOP has unfailingly been aligned with the wealthy classes. So, to the extent that middle class and poor white people are aligned with the GOP, it's not because of their status as laborers. It's in spite of their status as laborers.

Lack of education, racism, maybe other factors (and Democrats' insufficient efforts on behalf of labor) explain the affiliation of poor/middle-class/uneducated whites with the GOP. "Working" does not. Otherwise, you'd have more working-class nonwhites affiliated with the GOP.

Again, if the DNC cared so much about the working class, period, they’d stop intentionally sabotaging him and people like AOC for that matter. We’ll see what side they’re on when he wins the nomination...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We don’t need the white working class.

Your a classist, racist POS. Robespierre can’t come back from the grave quickly enough for people like you. Entitled, white, rich a$$holes like you are why Trump is president.

PP loves his “hardworking Latinos” because they’re cheaper and don’t make a lot of noise. They’re just happy to have work and to work tirelessly for him. He’s a racist POS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The GOP spin is ro laughable. As if they were ever going to do anything to help the unwealthy.

No, Bernie Sanders is. And the establishment on both sides on here are scared sh*tless.

Which is why I'm voting for Bernie or Warren.

The white working class will vote for whatever ever con makes them believe they are "one of them" while inheriting all their money from Daddy and sitting on golden toilets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The GOP spin is ro laughable. As if they were ever going to do anything to help the unwealthy.

No, Bernie Sanders is. And the establishment on both sides on here are scared sh*tless.

Which is why I'm voting for Bernie or Warren.

The white working class will vote for whatever ever con makes them believe they are "one of them" while inheriting all their money from Daddy and sitting on golden toilets.

The framework of white privilege can be invoked with insight and subtlety, or with myopia and exaggeration; but either is a lot easier for white people to hear and to assimilate into their worldview if they’re college graduates who anticipate rewarding careers and stable family lives and mostly socialize with the similarly advantaged. They’re told that they ought to be thriving given their race … and they are thriving!

But imagine that you’re a white man from a working-class family who dropped out of college because you couldn’t swing the tuition. You worked construction, but that dried up—you’re presently unemployed, with child-support payments piling up, a sister addicted to pain pills, and a brother who is in jail again for felony drunk driving. You drive a beat up car with a broken turn signal that you can’t afford to fix. You get pulled over regularly, and you’re often harassed by the cops, who hate your tattoos. Would you identify with a coalition that alighted on white privilege as the center of its cultural outlook and that mostly disseminated that worldview through people with more educational, social, and financial capital than you’ll ever have?

Of course you wouldn’t. To do so would seem at odds with all the struggling white people in your familial and social circles. It would seem to imply that failing despite having all the advantages in the world makes you a special kind of loser. It would seem to focus on race to the exclusion of other hugely important factors. And as far as you can tell, when a white family gets their door kicked down and their dog shot in a drug raid, or when a white high school classmate of yours commits suicide, no one in the world of national media much cares.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We don’t need the white working class.

Do you do your own plumbing and home repairs?

My plumber makes close to $150 an hour. He isn’t working class.

$150 per hour less business expenses doesn't make you wealthy.

And this post right here demonstrates perfectly the GOP stance on humanity. You're either wealthy or human trash, no middle ground.

I'll give Trump one thing, he emboldened the scum of the earth to come out and stop hiding their real views so at least we can identify them more easily.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The GOP spin is ro laughable. As if they were ever going to do anything to help the unwealthy.

No, Bernie Sanders is. And the establishment on both sides on here are scared sh*tless.

Which is why I'm voting for Bernie or Warren.

The white working class will vote for whatever ever con makes them believe they are "one of them" while inheriting all their money from Daddy and sitting on golden toilets.

The framework of white privilege can be invoked with insight and subtlety, or with myopia and exaggeration; but either is a lot easier for white people to hear and to assimilate into their worldview if they’re college graduates who anticipate rewarding careers and stable family lives and mostly socialize with the similarly advantaged. They’re told that they ought to be thriving given their race … and they are thriving!

But imagine that you’re a white man from a working-class family who dropped out of college because you couldn’t swing the tuition. You worked construction, but that dried up—you’re presently unemployed, with child-support payments piling up, a sister addicted to pain pills, and a brother who is in jail again for felony drunk driving. You drive a beat up car with a broken turn signal that you can’t afford to fix. You get pulled over regularly, and you’re often harassed by the cops, who hate your tattoos. Would you identify with a coalition that alighted on white privilege as the center of its cultural outlook and that mostly disseminated that worldview through people with more educational, social, and financial capital than you’ll ever have?

Of course you wouldn’t. To do so would seem at odds with all the struggling white people in your familial and social circles. It would seem to imply that failing despite having all the advantages in the world makes you a special kind of loser. It would seem to focus on race to the exclusion of other hugely important factors. And as far as you can tell, when a white family gets their door kicked down and their dog shot in a drug raid, or when a white high school classmate of yours commits suicide, no one in the world of national media much cares.

A very insightful, nuanced look at race and class. Well done. I’m sure it will be ignored or mocked by the shallow, privileged, and middlebrow denizens of DCUM

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We don’t need the white working class.

Do you do your own plumbing and home repairs?

My plumber makes close to $150 an hour. He isn’t working class.

$150 per hour less business expenses doesn't make you wealthy.

And this post right here demonstrates perfectly the GOP stance on humanity. You're either wealthy or human trash, no middle ground.

I'll give Trump one thing, he emboldened the scum of the earth to come out and stop hiding their real views so at least we can identify them more easily.

and he helped show how the mainstream media, CNN and MSNBC are completely biased against the middle class. We have been hearing the world is falling apart FOREVER, and things keep on working.